Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC

Iceflower tracks 1,226 stores from 736 food & drink chains in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC. Papa John's Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McAlister's Deli and Jersey Mike's Subs.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
736
Tracked stores
1,226
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & drink chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Papa John's Pizza and McAlister's Deli sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza - +8.9%
2 M McAlister's Deli logo McAlister's Deli - +7.3%
3 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs - +6.2%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲4 +5.5%
5 P Pizza Hut logo Pizza Hut ▲3 +4.8%
6 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +3.1%
7 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +3.0%
8 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲3 +2.7%
9 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲1 +2.6%
10 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲1 +2.5%
11 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - +2.3%
12 M Mi Rancho - +1.7%
13 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - +1.6%
14 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +1.2%
15 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +1.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,226 tracked store locations in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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